With 'no good alternate routes,' road closures cutting off Jefferson County
ARNOLD • The old adage “you can’t get there from here” may soon become the mantra of a large section of the St. Louis metro area, as flooding cuts off key routes between St. Louis and Jefferson counties.The expected closure of Interstate 55 Wednesday morning, and the possible closure of Lemay Ferry and Telegraph roads at some point, would sever untold numbers of employees from their jobs and lead school districts such as Lindbergh and Mehlville to close school Wednesday due to a crisis of staff..>> view originalWhy avoiding the Girl Scouts is a 'sane, balanced' move
Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City in Kansas is getting pilloried by the expected sources on his decision to transition the diocese away from the Girl Scouts, and toward American Heritage Girls. This reaction is one with the recent inanities of Berkeley’s caving in to threats of violence against unpopular speakers, or DNC Chairman Tom Perez’s hurling anathemas at pro-life Democrats. It’s hysterical and unmeasured. It’s abortion-centric, and blind to basic freedoms enjoyed by every America..>> view originalThis poll number might be the worst one yet for President Trump
Throughout the 2016 campaign, there was one mainstay when it came to reasons to vote for Donald Trump: Change. Even as people questioned his temperament and experience and policies, they believed he would change Washington. It was his central appeal, according to exit polls. No longer. A new Gallup poll on Tuesday showed just 40 percent of people said Trump has made progress after 100 days when it comes to changing the way Washington works; 54 percent said he hasn’t. This finding echoes — and..>> view originalThe simple reason Republicans are stuck with Obamacare
President Trump promised on April 30 that new GOP health-care legislation will preserve coverage for people with preexisting medical conditions — but critics say that's at odds with his promise to lower premiums. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post) Republicans have settled on a bold, new strategy for not replacing Obamacare. They're making the moderates in their caucus kill their plan instead of the ultra-conservatives. And it's working! Now this plan might seem strange when Republican..>> view originalState charges still possible for Baton Rouge officers
BATON ROUGE, La. — The Justice Department’s decision not to charge two white Baton Rouge police officers in the shooting death of a black man may not be the final legal chapter in a case that reverberated far beyond Louisiana’s capital. The department’s decision doesn’t preclude state authorities from conducting their own investigation of Alton Sterling’s fatal shooting last summer and pursuing their own criminal charges in the case. A person familiar with the Justice Department’s decision disc..>> view originalWatch live: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds the daily briefing
Trump goes home for a New York minute
His 107-day absence, friends say, is the longest stretch he has spent outside of New York since he was born in Queens in 1946.Yet the President isn't returning for long. He is scheduled to meet Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who will join Trump at the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea aboard the USS Intrepid, the aircraft carrier-turned-museum parked along Manhattan's West Side.Friends close to Trump and former campaign advisers tell CNN the homecoming could be clarify..>> view originalA look at high-profile police shootings
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A lawyer for the family of a black motorist shot to death by a white South Carolina police officer says justice has been done with the fired officer’s guilty plea. But attorney Chris Stewart also said Tuesday that verdicts are rare in officer-involved killings. Prosecutors are recommending that Michael Slager serve decades in prison for violating the civil rights of Walter Scott by shooting him in the back as he fled, a crime captured on cellphone video and seen worldwide. Th..>> view originalWhile in White House, Trumps remained selling points for 'very special' Philippines project
(Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post) Investors looking to buy a condo at Trump Tower in the Philippines would have found, until this week, some high-powered video testimonials on the project’s official website. There was Donald Trump, in a message filmed several years before he was elected president of the United States, declaring that the skyscraper bearing his name near the Philippine capital would be “something very, very special, like nobody’s seen before.” Then there was his da..>> view originalTrump is learning — and sometimes mislearning — the lessons of the presidency
As Howard J. Kittell gave President Trump a tour of former president Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage plantation in Nashville a couple of months ago, the two discussed the seventh president’s military career, his controversial marriage, his image as a “tough, go-get-’em kind of guy” and his determination to keep the young country unified. The Civil War never came up. So on Monday, as Kittell checked his phone while stopped at a red light on the way to work, he was surprised to read that Trump had w..>> view original
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